v
(transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
v
(figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
v
(transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
v
(intransitive) (with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort
v
(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
v
(idiomatic) To do something that is unneeded or redundant.
v
(transitive) To cut off the edge or corner of something.
n
A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
v
(transitive) To remove stripes from.
v
(video games, roguelikes) To descend through the dungeon as quickly as possible, without spending unnecessary time on the upper levels.
v
(US colloquial, transitive, intransitive, often with 'on') To jump into a dogpile.
n
(obsolete, slang) A bad bill of exchange, drawn on persons who have no effects of the drawer.
v
(transitive) To make rough.
n
The act by which something is felled.
v
(transitive) To dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.
v
Alternative form of field strip [(transitive) To dismantle (a weapon) for cleaning, oiling or repair; to disassemble (a firearm) to the maximum extent possible without tools.]
v
(transitive) To dig a military foxhole into, or convert into a foxhole by digging.
v
(intransitive, especially of an animal, chiefly UK) To escape into a burrow, hole, etc. when being hunted.
v
(intransitive) To go into a hole.
v
(intransitive) To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
v
(intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
v
To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
n
Alternative form of piledriving [The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.]
n
The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
n
(dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
v
To remove (material) by reaming.
v
(transitive) To place in another bag.
n
An act of trimming again.
v
To move materials with a shovel.
n
The act by which something is shovelled.
v
(transitive) To excavate (a place, or something from a place) using a steam shovel.
adj
(of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
v
(Britain) To use a strimmer/string trimmer
v
(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
v
(transitive, mining, obsolete) To drill or bore; to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
n
(construction) A failure of a brick wall in which the bricks at one lower end crack and crumble.
n
(countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
v
To pull such strips from a plant.
n
A device for unreeling something, such as a cable.
v
(transitive) To remove the trimmings or adornments from.
v
(transitive) To strip the turf from.
v
(transitive, poetic) To plough up.
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